Using SNSs for early detection of disease outbreak in developing countries: evidence from COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria.

ABSTRACT: Developing countries, particularly Nigeria, continually find it challenging to proactively and actively carry out early-stage surveillance for disease outbreaks due to the lack of quality workforce, a dearth of public health data, and the absence of automated surveillance systems in the country. This study presents the potential and ability of Twitter in tracking early detection of COVID-19, monitoring the dissemination of information, and exploration of public awareness and attitudes among Nigerians. Tweets mentioning COVID-19 and related keywords were collected in 11 batches via the NCapture™ plugin available on Google Chrome from February 20 - May 6, 2020. The analysis includes a time series analysis to track the distribution of data and content analysis to analyze the knowledge and att

SUBMITTER: Adebisi T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8165079 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature